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With both Community Tickets and Community events enabled, site visitors submitting an event will have the option to create tickets but will not see what our fees are within the community form. People may think we are offering this for free.

The list of user submitted events (example.com/events/community/list) is currently sorted in descending order, meaning events starting in two weeks are listed first, events starting in one week listed below.
This is because this view is considered as an admin-like page (as I can administer my submitted events here), and in the admin it is in descending order by default.

But if this view is considered as an admin-like page, then it should have "admin-like" features. One would be to change order by clicking a column header, as it's possible in the backend ("Status", "Title", "Organizer", "Venue", ... and, especially, "Start Date" and "End Date"). Otherwise that's neither one thing (admin-like page) nor the other (useful list).

Since UserVoice's search capabilities are limited, I couldn't find an existing proposal similar to this.

The list of user submitted events (example.com/events/community/list) is currently sorted in descending order, meaning events starting in two weeks are listed first, events starting in one week listed below.
This is because this view is considered as an admin-like page (as I can administer my submitted events here), and in the admin it is in descending order by default.

But if this view is considered as an admin-like page, then it should have "admin-like" features. One would be to change order by clicking a column header, as it's possible in the backend ("Status", "Title", "Organizer", "Venue", ... and, especially, "Start…

Develop a package pricing option where users could add a free event or premium event listing. Also allow for a membership option where event promoters could pay a flat monthly / annual fee and enter as many premium events as they would like.

We released our Featured Events functionality last year which paves the way for this feature. We’re actively strategizing an update or add-on to Community Events that could include a paid submission form.

Would be great to have the ability to change the slugs/endpoints for the pages generated by the Community Events Plugin.
Even simply adding a filter to the multiple `$router->add_route` lines and the `communityRewriteSlug()` in Tribe\Main.php would go a long way to helping devs better integrate Community Events into their sites.

The most obvious use case is for sites building a User Panel: the ability to move the user's events list to my-account/events, (/add, etc), but any site that has multiple user actions that need to be managed (WooCommerce, BuddyPress/BBPress, the myriad of Directory, Classified, Buy Ads, subscription management, etc) would benefit immensely.

Would be great to have the ability to change the slugs/endpoints for the pages generated by the Community Events Plugin.
Even simply adding a filter to the multiple `$router->add_route` lines and the `communityRewriteSlug()` in Tribe\Main.php would go a long way to helping devs better integrate Community Events into their sites.

The most obvious use case is for sites building a User Panel: the ability to move the user's events list to my-account/events, (/add, etc), but any site that has multiple user actions that need to be managed (WooCommerce, BuddyPress/BBPress, the myriad of Directory, Classified, Buy Ads, subscription management, etc) would…

A switch in the settings to hide or turn off the follwowing fields in the event submit form would be useful:
d) Timezone (not necessary if there are only events of one country/region)
e) Recurring events (not every calendar needs them)

Now, community events (CE) all get merged into the Main event calendar. We have no control to speak of to keep the two separate. I can call just CE, or I can call everything BUT CE, but there is no simple way just remove CEs from the from the MC. All your filters are -inclusive- and you have no -exclude- filters. If our categories change (as they do) with the current setup we also have to edit every -inclusive- call.

2) there is no way for force a category on CEs. Folks adding a new ce have the option of using one of our main calendar categories, which further blends the two together.

3) there is no way to simply disable the showing of fields in the public entry form.

Everything seems to be written with the assumption that CEs belong in the main calendar, with no provisions for those of us who want them kept separate. (We are a non-profit and have to be careful with what might appear to be sponsored by us, vs some random public entry.)

Please provide a way to keep the two distinct. All of the ideas here aim toward that end.

Now, community events (CE) all get merged into the Main event calendar. We have no control to speak of to keep the two separate. I can call just CE, or I can call everything BUT CE, but there is no simple way just remove CEs from the from the MC. All your filters are -inclusive- and you have no -exclude- filters. If our categories change (as they do) with the current setup we also have to edit every -inclusive- call.

2) there is no way for force a category on CEs. Folks adding a new ce have the option of…

I am using Community Events to have non-admin people submit their events for course listings.
The tooltip for these events look awful as the HTML is stripped out of the event description when the wp_trim_words functions is run.
I realize that this has already been addressed by not stripping the HTML from the excerpt of the event, however entry of the excerpt is not available in the event submission form in the Community Events plugin.
On the event submission form in Community Events please add the Excerpt as a entry field.

We have a lot of events that don’t have a proper address, and I’d like to offer them the option to enter those in if they know them. Even better to offer a link to a tool to find them out. These fields are available in the backend for events, so I don’t know why it shouldn’t be for the front end. I feel like there should just an option to click on from the settings, rather than having to create a customized version of the front end template.

This would be for Community + Pro. As admin I'd naturally use the uppermost limit for neverending events, but for community contributors, a smaller max time period and/or total number of events would be great. Really, just having a max number of total events allowed.

I just installed Community Events and am looking for a way to review pending events before publishing them. Being able to review pending events before publishing was one of the highlighted features that motivated me to purchase Community Events.

When I view the community events list (using /events/community/list/), it does not show all the event information, in particular it does not show the description field (which is required), the cost field or the website field. This means that there is no effective way to proof the entries before publishing.

To remedy this, users need to be able to see all the data in the community list view. This includes description, cost, event image, and event website URL. The “Display” button selection list should show all these fields and allow users to select them for display.

I would also like to see a link that would display a “preview calendar”, i.e., a calendar populated by pending events rather than published events. Both the month and list views would be needed for effective reviewing. A nice touch would be to add an “edit” button to the “Find out more…” view when in this mode, which would take the user to the edit screen for the selected event.

I just installed Community Events and am looking for a way to review pending events before publishing them. Being able to review pending events before publishing was one of the highlighted features that motivated me to purchase Community Events.

When I view the community events list (using /events/community/list/), it does not show all the event information, in particular it does not show the description field (which is required), the cost field or the website field. This means that there is no effective way to proof the entries before publishing.

You can fully revew the pending events submitted by others in your WP admin under ‘Events’. There you will see all the details.

The page you access under ‘/events/community/list/’ lists only the events submitted by you, and not of others. If you are not the site admin, then this is sort of the admin page for you to manage the events that you submitted.

The users will be able to see all submitted and published events on the /events/ page where you can choose from different views, like calendar, day, list etc.
If they click on an event there, they will see all the details of the event.

Your 4th idea is an interesting one. Let’s see how many other people like it.

When a user submits an event to the Community Events form, the event goes into Pending/Draft as I have set in the admin panel. However, if a user goes back to edit an Approved/Published event, it should also automatically get withdrawn from the site and submitted for approval.